On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> Well, I finally came around to acquiring the source and loved the new look
> to 'make xconfig.' Anyhow, After I've run the config, I run a make dep
> [and a make clean] and usually do make boot. But this time it said the
> system was too big, so I used make bzImage. then I make modules and finish
> with make modules_install. Pretty standard. Then I copy the zImage and
> System.map filex to /boot, make a new initrd image, edit /etc/lilo.conf,
> run lilo, and reboot. So far so good. But then when it tries to boot, it
> says loading image... (or whatever the very first line is) and the second
> line is:
>
> No setup signature found... <system halts here!>
>
> No idea what is going on. I tried recompiling, same result.
>
> Also, modules are no longer being loaded by themselves. The only one that
> is loaded by itself is aic7xxx, and it tries to load it twice during
> bootup! Not only is that wierd by itself but there is nothing between the
> two tries, it finishes seting up the driver for the detected card, then
> tries to load the driver!
>
Make sure you copied bzImage to /boot. I've never had a "kernel too big"
problem before, so I'm not sure if make zImage will actually write a
zImage even if the kernel's too big. If it does, then that might have
copies the wrong file and that could be your problem.
As for the modules, do you mean when you booted back to your old kernel?
I think the latest modutils (which you need for 2.2.1), which should be
2.1.121, breaks under 2.0.x kernels. I'm not sure why, since it's supposed
to work. I think I saw some messages in the kernel archives about fixing
that, but what I basically had to do when trying to install 2.2.1 was
constantly "up"grade modutils back and form with rpm --force. Probably not
the ideal solution, but it worked.
BTW, what exactly does /boot/System.map do? I've got an old System.map in
my /boot directory (from 2.0.36, I think), but everything still runs fine.
HTH,
MZhang
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